A Little Space of Grace
Donald Cantrell
Ezra 9: 1 - 9
I - The Gregarious Times (1 - 2)
II - The Glaring Travesty (3)
III - The Gathered Tremblers (4)
IV - The Grievous Transgressions (5 - 7)
V - The Gracious Time (8)
VI - The Glorious Testimony (9)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''God has given us a little space of grace for this age''
LITTLE THINGS
This leads us to a simple but important principle: Our faithfulness in the little things will determine how faithful we will be with bigger things.
There is a story about a huge bank where one of the employees was up for a significant promotion. He lost that promotion one day in the bank's cafeteria when the President of the bank saw the man hide two pats of butter under his bread so he wouldn't have to pay for them. The President of the bank concluded that any man who was dishonest about butter could not be trusted with bigger things.
Little things are important.
It was Benjamin Franklin who wrote:
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost;
being overtaken and slain by the enemy,
all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Little Mirrors
Robert Fulghum, in his book, ''It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It'' tells how he found purpose in life. Fulghum, a former Episcopal priest, took a course on Greek culture at an Orthodox retreat center on the Island of Crete. A man named Alexander Papaderos built the center.
After World War II Papaderos became disturbed by the hatred his people still had for the Germans. So he built a meeting place where people could come to make peace, to talk, and try to understand one another.
He built the center on the site where Nazi soldiers had brutally murdered thousands of Cretan civilians. For years, people had come from all over the world to share in the love and grace of Dr. Papaderos and to l ...
Donald Cantrell
Ezra 9: 1 - 9
I - The Gregarious Times (1 - 2)
II - The Glaring Travesty (3)
III - The Gathered Tremblers (4)
IV - The Grievous Transgressions (5 - 7)
V - The Gracious Time (8)
VI - The Glorious Testimony (9)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''God has given us a little space of grace for this age''
LITTLE THINGS
This leads us to a simple but important principle: Our faithfulness in the little things will determine how faithful we will be with bigger things.
There is a story about a huge bank where one of the employees was up for a significant promotion. He lost that promotion one day in the bank's cafeteria when the President of the bank saw the man hide two pats of butter under his bread so he wouldn't have to pay for them. The President of the bank concluded that any man who was dishonest about butter could not be trusted with bigger things.
Little things are important.
It was Benjamin Franklin who wrote:
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost;
being overtaken and slain by the enemy,
all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Little Mirrors
Robert Fulghum, in his book, ''It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It'' tells how he found purpose in life. Fulghum, a former Episcopal priest, took a course on Greek culture at an Orthodox retreat center on the Island of Crete. A man named Alexander Papaderos built the center.
After World War II Papaderos became disturbed by the hatred his people still had for the Germans. So he built a meeting place where people could come to make peace, to talk, and try to understand one another.
He built the center on the site where Nazi soldiers had brutally murdered thousands of Cretan civilians. For years, people had come from all over the world to share in the love and grace of Dr. Papaderos and to l ...
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